Year: 2011

Happy IWD!

I don’t have anything special planned except for paying a little more attention specifically to what other women are writing right now. Feel free to share links to anything you find especially relevant today.

How the carbon price works

That is the whole point: to make goods that are generated with more carbon pollution relatively more expensive than goods that are generated with less carbon pollution.

Were you online in ’95-ish?

Sadly, the unsung programmer who created Trumpet Winsock, Tasmanian Peter Tattam, didn’t get paid for most of those copies; millions of free give-aways that saw hardly a brass razoo come back to him.

Otterday! And Open Thread.

Today’s otters are brought to you via the Telegraph: “Guinevere and Lancelot, Asian short clawed otters at Chessington zoo, ferry their six-week-old triplets away from the water’s edge”.

Femmostroppo Reader March 4, 2011

Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss (during my week of seminaring where I didn’t even managed to get an FS reader up for you)? Leave your own interesting links in comments.